Bill Press

It’s exactly as The Hill reported, but I still refuse to believe it — I refuse to believe that House Republicans could be so dumb.Consider the context, in light of what we’ve experienced over the last two months: Terrorists killed 12 people at the...

Speaker John Boehner finally got something right. He invited Pope Francis to address a joint session of Congress, when he visits Washington on Sept. 24. And this time, unlike his disastrous faux pas with Bibi Netanyahu, Boehner actually consulted...

It’s amazing, isn’t it? How people who are supposed to be so smart can make such serious mistakes. The worst we’ve seen in a long time is Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of...

Barbara Boxer’s announcement that she will not seek reelection to the Senate has set off a frenzy in California not seen since the Gold Rush. Anybody could win. All you need is a pick, an ax and the ability to raise or cough up a minimum $40 million...

Even though they still call themselves the party of Lincoln, there are many ways in which today’s Republicans no longer follow the spirit of the Great Emancipator. For starters, too many of them forget Lincoln’s first rule for politicians: “...

Clint Eastwood has accomplished the impossible this Oscar season. He has delivered the film everybody loves to hate, and the film everybody loves to love. It’s the same film: “American Sniper.”Now, I know that as a liberal, anti-war Democrat, I wasn...

There’s been a lot of controversy about how the former President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s role in the civil rights movement is depicted in the new movie “Selma” — so much controversy that you, like me, might have made up your mind not to bother...

In a world of political midgets, Mario Cuomo was a giant: a man of convictions, incredible drive and an abiding belief in the power of government to make life better for average working-class Americans.We not only lost an effective political leader...